Wolff was a shy, pretty white girl raised in a predominantly African-American neighborhood by a single father who, despite clearly being white, seems to have convinced himself that he’s black. She transforms her sitcom-ready upbringing into a tightly focused, perceptive, and very funny memoir from St. Martin’s Press. She addresses race in the process, of course, but at its core, I’m Down is about a daughter trying to impress her eccentric father and capture his attention and love once and for all.
